The folks at Vertical are continuing to expand their offerings and one of the neatest titles I’m personally super excited to see arriving is GTO: 14 Days in Shonan by Tohru Fujisawa. This series began in 2009, some seven years after he finished the first series with Great Teacher Onizuka having run twenty-five volumes. The new series picks up later on and is currently at six compiled volumes in Japan and still going. So if you’ve been missing some Onizuka in your life, now’s the time to check it out.
Plot Concept: After cracking down on troubled teens in his own school, Eikichi (aka GTO) goes home to the peaceful shores of Shonan to relax and escape the stresses of modern-day Tokyo. However, much like communities across the globe, even his hometown has not escaped the declining state of child services. In typical form, GTO decides to personally provide hard-knocks education to his old neighborhood with hopes of putting a group of troubled teens back on the track towards happiness.
